Job 35:6
New International Version
If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that do to him?

New Living Translation
If you sin, how does that affect God? Even if you sin again and again, what effect will it have on him?

English Standard Version
If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

Berean Standard Bible
If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?

King James Bible
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

New King James Version
If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? Or, if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?

New American Standard Bible
“If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him? And if your wrongdoings are many, what do you do to Him?

NASB 1995
“If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him? And if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him?

NASB 1977
“If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him? And if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him?

Legacy Standard Bible
If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him? And if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him?

Amplified Bible
“If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what have you done to Him?

Christian Standard Bible
If you sin, how does it affect God? If you multiply your transgressions, what does it do to him?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If you sin, how does it affect God? If you multiply your transgressions, what does it do to Him?

American Standard Version
If thou hast sinned, what effectest thou against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
If you sin, what will you do to him, and if your evil increases, what will you do to him?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and if too thou hast transgressed much, what canst thou perform?

Contemporary English Version
and think! Do your sins hurt God?

Douay-Rheims Bible
If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? and if thy iniquities be multiplied, what shalt thou do against him?

English Revised Version
If thou hast sinned, what doest thou against him? and if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If you've sinned, what effect can you have on God? If you've done many wrongs, what can you do to him?

Good News Translation
If you sin, that does no harm to God. If you do wrong many times, does that affect him?

International Standard Version
If you sin, what will that do to harm him? If you add transgression to transgression what will it do to him?

JPS Tanakh 1917
If thou hast sinned, what doest thou against Him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto Him?

Literal Standard Version
If you have sinned, what do you do against Him? And your transgressions have been multiplied, | What do you do to Him?

Majority Standard Bible
If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?

New American Bible
If you sin, what do you do to God? Even if your offenses are many, how do you affect him?

NET Bible
If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him?

New Revised Standard Version
If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

New Heart English Bible
If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

Webster's Bible Translation
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions are multiplied, what doest thou to him?

World English Bible
If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

Young's Literal Translation
If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?

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Context
Elihu Reminds Job of God's Justice
5Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you. 6If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him? 7If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?…

Cross References
Job 7:20
If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?

Proverbs 8:36
But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death."

Jeremiah 7:19
But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?


Treasury of Scripture

If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you to him?

Proverbs 8:36
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Proverbs 9:12
If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

Jeremiah 7:19
Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

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Job 35
1. Comparison is not to be made with God,
6. because our good or evil cannot extend unto him
9. Many cry in their afflictions, but are not heard for lack of faith














Verse 6. - If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? Man's sins against God cannot injure him, diminish from his power, or lower his dignity. They can only injure the sinner himself. God does not punish them because they harm him, but because they are discords in the harmony of his moral universe. Or even if thy transgressions be multiplied; i.e. if thou persistest in a long course of sin, and addest "rebellion" to transgression, and self-complacency to rebellion, and "multipliest thy words against God" (Job 34:37) - even then, what doest thou unto him?.. what hurt dost thou inflict upon him? None.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
If
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

you sin,
חָ֭טָאתָ (ḥā·ṭā·ṯā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 2398: To miss, to sin, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, lead astray, condemn

what
מַה־ (mah-)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

do you accomplish
תִּפְעָל־ (tip̄·‘āl-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 6466: To do, make, to practise

against Him?
בּ֑וֹ (bōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

If you multiply
וְרַבּ֥וּ (wə·rab·bū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 7231: To cast together, increase, in number, to multiply by the myriad

your transgressions,
פְ֝שָׁעֶ֗יךָ (p̄ə·šā·‘e·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6588: Transgression

what
מַה־ (mah-)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

do you do
תַּעֲשֶׂה־ (ta·‘ă·śeh-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

to Him?
לּֽוֹ׃ (lōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew


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